Georges Marius Géo-Lachaux artwork • painting • previously for sale The Paramount Theatre on the Boulevard des Capucines, Paris

The French late-impressionist Georges Marius Géo-Lachaux was especially successful with his urban scenes of Paris, which he regularly provided with accurate placeholders. The painter thus belongs to the group of French artists who in the decades around 1900 specialized in the cityscape of the French capital so popular with artists and fashionable travellers. In addition, Géo-Lachaux painted farmyards, landscapes and figures. The Paramount Pictures movie palace pictured here on the Boulevard des Capucines replaced the time-honoured Théâtre du Vaudeville in 1927. This was a response to the growing interest of the theater audience in the phenomenon of film. The cinema still exists today, under the name Opéra Gaumont.